Codona (album)

Codona
Codona
Studio album by Collin Walcott, Don Cherry & Naná Vasconcelos
Released	1979
Recorded	September 1978
Genre	Jazz
Length	42:37
Label	ECM
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Codona chronology

Codona is the first album by the jazz trio Codona which featured sitarist and tabla player Collin Walcott, trumpeter Don Cherry and percussionist Naná Vasconcelos recorded in 1978 and released on the ECM label.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 4 stars stating simply "These three communicate".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Collin Walcott except as indicated

"Like That of Sky" - 11:07
"Codona" (Cherry, Vasconcelos, Walcott) - 6:14
"Colemanwonder: Race Face/Sortie/Sir Duke" (Ornette Coleman/Coleman/Stevie Wonder) - 3:40
"Mumakata" - 8:14
"New Light" - 13:22

- Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, West Germany in September 1978

Personnel

Collin Walcott — sitar, tabla, hammered dulcimer, kalimba, voice
Don Cherry — trumpet, wood flute, doussn' gouni, voice
Naná Vasconcelos — percussion, cuica, berimbau, voice

References

^ ECM discography accessed September 12, 2011
^ ^a ^b Nastos, M. G.Allmusic Review accessed September 12, 2011
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 40. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[ECM_discography-1] ECM discography accessed September 12, 2011

[Allmusic-2] Nastos, M. G.Allmusic Review accessed September 12, 2011

[RSJRG-3] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 40. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

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v t e Don Cherry
Studio albums	The Avant-Garde (1961) Complete Communion (1965) Symphony for Improvisers (1966) Where Is Brooklyn? (1966) Eternal Rhythm (1968) Blue Lake (1971) Organic Music Society (1972) Relativity Suite with Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1973) Eternal Now (1973) Orient (1974) Brown Rice (1975) Hear & Now (1976) El Corazón with Ed Blackwell (1982) Home Boy (Sister Out) (1985) Art Deco (1988) Multikulti (1991) Dona Nostra (1993)
with Old and New Dreams	Old and New Dreams (1977) Old and New Dreams (1979) Playing (1981) A Tribute to Blackwell (1990)
with Codona	Codona (1979) Codona 2 (1981) Codona 3 (1983)
with New York Contemporary Five	Consequences (1963) Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963) Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (1964)